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Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States[edit]

Dear Wingerham52,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States. The images you uploaded will help illustrate Wikipedia articles on historic sites in the United States. We are delighted to share the winning images and our top 10 finalists with you.

We invite you to continue uploading images to Wikimedia Commons and we hope you will return for Wiki Loves Monuments again in September 2014. For more information about Wikimedia Commons, please visit our welcome page. For more information about Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, please click here. Once again, thank you for sharing your images and participating in our contest.

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey.

Dear Wingerham52,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time.

Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 365,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place.

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Thanks for uploading File:Grand Ledge Clay Products.jpg. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear.

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Hello Wingerham52,
we decided some months ago to invite the challenge winners to help us decide the themes for the next month needing themes - in this case September.
If you are ready to help, I just started the section September themes on commons talk:Photo challenge, where you can post your suggestion / decide which of the posted suggestions (e.g. from the other winner or me) you like best. If you are looking for ideas, here's a list of suggestions that are waiting to be chosen, but you are welcome to propose another theme.
Best wishes, --Anna reg (talk) 07:53, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

I posted your suggestions insects and fossils on the Photo challenge talk page, where we are discussing next month's themes. If you'd like to give some further input, it would be great if you could do that today or tomorrow, as I'd really like to have the themes ready tomorrow evening - giving us time to organise the page creation and the translations.

Look at the very bottom of File:St. John's Episcopal Church - Mt. Pleasant.jpg and you will see categories that someone else put in for you. This is a typical example how all your pictures should be placed into correct categories - with at least 1 category for each picture. More categories even better.

Hi. I see you have uploaded several photos of churches, mostly historic, in Michigan. I have been working to get photos of the Catholic cathedrals in the US. Among others, we need St. Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Gaylord and the Cathedral of Saint Augustine in Kalamazoo. If you are near those places in the near future, could you photograph them and upload the pictures? I realize you may not live near them, and I realize they are not near each other to begin with, but if you are near to them at any point I would appreciate your help. Thank you for considering this request. Farragutful (talk) 01:07, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello Wingerham52,
the photos you uploaded to the photo challenge "Windows" do not show ivy, but a plant called "Virginia creeper" (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). Best regards from Germany and good luck for the challenge! --Maimaid (talk) 09:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)